Wine Reviews
Moss Wood 2019 Pinot Noir – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Ripe strawberry, cedar, mushroom, lemon zest and spice. Medium-bodied, ripe strawberry and earthy things, with some tang and vigour, a little red fruit and honey, but also has something of an orange peel/amaro twist. Finish is all red fruits and orange rind, and some quiet perfume. Length is pretty good.…
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Moss Wood 2021 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
You’re rarely left wondering what you’re drinking when you have a Moss Wood Chardonnay. Peach and lime, honeysuckle, ginger snap oak, and Jersey Caramel. Plenty of flavour, all peach tea and lime, with a spicy cashew creaminess, ripe and fruity, kind of glossy, but tight in citrus acidity. Offers some…
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Moss Wood 2020 Pinot Noir – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
An impressive Pinot despite being one of the few Margaret River producers that persevere with the variety. There is an intense core of fruit ranging from red currant, and black currant through to dried herbs and forest floor which are well integrated with a generous serve of French oak. The…
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Moss Wood 2022 Semillon – Angus Hughson, Wine Pilot
The 2022 vintage was on the warm side for Margaret River which has given this Moss Wood Semillon more upfront drinkability than usual. There is underlying power and richness of flavour while retaining good focus with aromas of melon and kiwi fruit plus touches of lanolin over a core of…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2021 Chardonnay – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
What a way to start the weekend! A scintillating Chardonnay from Moss Wood. A long, cool growing season gave Moss Wood some great fruit to work with.And one of Margaret River’s most respected wineries know what to do with it….Moss Wood 2021 Chardonnay is beautifully balanced with nectarine and pink…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2022 Semillon – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
Wine should always be joyful!Moss Wood Semillon 2022 is definitely a golden child ! A warm growing season in Margaret River following the wet year of 2021 meant the vines were primed to deliver.This is a Semillon that marches to the border of Sauvignon Blanc style tropical flavour and generosity…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2020 Pinot Noir – Fergal Gleeson, Greatwineblog
High end Pinot Noir is a unicorn in Margaret River.However Moss Wood‘s founders the Pannells were Burgundy buffs and planted Pinot Noir vines way back in 1973.This wine has a loyal following amongst Moss Wood drinkers and holds its own against Pinot from Tasmania and Victoria.Hail storms in Spring led…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Pinot Noir – Tyson Stelzer, Wine Business Magazine
Pale in colour and disposition. Spicy, tangy, ripe red berry fruits and menthol. Impressive brightness and liveliness at three years of age. Lovely fine, mineral tannin profile. Compellingly elegant. Outstanding line and length. Unashamedly cool. Enticing. 14.0% June 2022
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Elsa – Bob Campbell, The Real Review
This is the third vintage of Elsa Moss Wood are now picking the grapes later to introduce more passion fruit and guava complexity. The wine was fermented and matured in 228 litre French oak barrels (10% new). A barrel-fermented sauvignon blanc with gooseberry and green capsicum flavours together with riper…
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Moss Wood 2020 Amy’s – Ray Jordan, The West Australian Wine Guide 2022
A blend of cabernet sauvignon, malbec, merlot, and petit verdot. Just gorgeous from the start through to its exceptionally refined and long palate finish. Strikes such a good balance between fruit and oak with a red fruit dominance supported with a chalky mouth feel.
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2018 Merlot – Christina Pickard, Wine Enthusiast
The sea of Aussie Merlot is more like a pond, but this historic producer’s version is one of its biggest fish. It’s leafy (but not in an underripe way), with lively red berry and plum fruit, white pepper, savory herbs and undergrowth. The palate delivers on the nose’s promise, with…
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Moss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Deep crimson. Classical blackcurrant, blackberry, cedar aromas with mocha, hint sage notes. Beautifully balanced and concentrated palate with fresh pure blackcurrent, blackberry, mulberry fruits, fine loose-knot grainy tannins and well integrated roasted almond, vanilla oak. Builds up cedar firm with an inky long plume. Let it develop for a few…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Medium deep crimson. Attractive musky dark plum aromas with hazelnut, praline notes. Generous, minerally and vigorous with saturated dark plum, mulberry, hazelnut, vanilla flavours, fine chalky al dente textures and long fresh integrated mineral acidity. Not powerful but graceful with lovely fruit complexity and vinosity. A cedary/ chalky tannin plume…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com
Medium deep crimson. Fresh blackcurrant, dark plum aromas with marzipan, herb garden violet notes. Inky deep with juicy blackcurrant, plum, mulberry fruits, fine slinky textures and underlying roasted chestnut, roasted almond notes. Finishes al dente firm with lovely mineral length. Give it another year of bottle age before drinking. A…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Pinot Noir – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Medium crimson. Fragrant red cherry, redcurrant, roasted walnut aromas with herb garden, hint of peppermint notes. Well concentrated ample wine with red cherry, strawberry, leafy flavours, lovely mid-palate density and fine supple loose knit tannins. Roasted walnut notes at the finish. Not classic, but the viscosity and vigour are neatly…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Merlot – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Olive leaf, cedar, mint, nutty with black and red fruit. It’s savoury, quite leafy, with a slight honey flavour in with the mixed berry fruit, light grainy tannin, a bit of oak bobbing up, and an olive laced finish of solid length. A more savoury expression of Merlot, perhaps a…
Read ReviewMoss Wood Ribbon Vale 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Nutty, a little honey perfume, red and black fruit, cedar and lemon zest. Medium-bodied, distinct hazelnut and honey thing happening here, and cedar oak, crisp acidity, seaweed and red and black fruit, light grip of furry tannin, mushroom/umami flavours too, and a toasted nut and red fruit finish of good…
Read ReviewMoss Wood 2019 Cabernet Sauvignon – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Powerful, compact, brooding sort of style, but tight too, all black fruit, dark chocolate, a seasoning of bay leaf and baking spice, some floral notes peeping over the top. Tannin is earthy and dense, but smooth and layered, boysenberry and dark raspberry, firm acidity set neatly inside, and a tobacco…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2021 Chardonnay – Gary Walsh, The Wine Front
Rich, slippery, full-flavoured style. Melon and peach, Jersey caramel, some sweet spicy wood. It’s glossy and buttery, but has bright enough acidity, lots of Chardonnay flavour here, in with spiced biscuits and maybe a little lemon zest and aniseed, pulls a bit flinty on the finish, and again plenty of…
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Moss Wood Ribbon Vale 2020 Elsa – Andrew Caillard, Wine Pilot.com – The Vintage Journal
Pale colour. Fresh pineapple, stonefruit, honey aromas with herb garden, hint of grassy notes. Attractive minerally wine with fresh tropical fruit, peach, lemon glacé flavours, fine loose knit chalky textures and fresh long crisp acidity. A touch of aniseed at the finish. Delicious early drinking “classic white” style. 90% Sauvignon…
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